February 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

ConTeXt book
by Matija Šuklje 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hullo, I've been wondering ...does anyone know of any good (printed) book to learn ConTeXt? Cheers, Matija -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 e-mail: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net www: http://matija.suklje.name aim: hookofsilver icq: 110183360 jabber/g-talk: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org msn: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net yahoo: matija_suklje

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PDF/A with ConTeXt
by Santy, Michael 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Records management systems prefer to receive their PDFs compliant with the PDF/A standard (subset of PDF 1.4). Is there any mechanism in ConTeXt/pdfTex to specify the PDF output should comply with PDF/A? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A Thanks, Mike

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%18 or 18% : incorrect placement of the percentage sign ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi, I have often seen (in arabic newpapers) the percentage sign set left to the number "% 18". Recently I read an article (http://sehstoerung.sonance.net/pdfs/ TitusNemeth_dissertation.pdf) that calls this "... the incorrect placement of the percentage sign". Any native arabic speaker out there? Is it %18 or 18% ?? Thanks, Steffen

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ConTeXt installation in Vista
by Βασίλης Γκολφινόπουλος 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Has anybody installed ConTeXt in Windows Vista? I am running into problems. Vassilis

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!pdfTeX error: pdftex (file lmmi12): Font lmmi12 at 600 not found
by Mojca Miklavec 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hello, I don't quite understand why, but my distribution became broken at some random time point (I do not remember doing anything special in the meantime). I have installed ConTeXt from scratch, but the same problem persists: systems : begin file sqrt at line 1 fonts : needs map file: original-base fonts : needs map file: original-ams-base fonts : needs map file: original-public-lm fonts : needs map file: lm-ec fonts : needs map file: lm-math fonts : needs map file: lm-rm (/context2/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/sort-def.tex (/context2/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/sort-def.mkii)) (/context2/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/sort-lan.tex loading : Context Sorting Macros (languages) (/context2/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/sort-lan.mkii)) [1.1 pdfTeX warning: pdftex (file pdftex.map): cannot open font map file ] systems : end file sqrt at line 3 system : cont-err loaded (/context2/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-err.tex systems : no file 'cont-sys.tex', using 'cont-sys.rme' instead ) ) !pdfTeX error: pdftex (file lmmi12): Font lmmi12 at 600 not found ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! TeXExec | runtime: 0.773438 There is no pdftex.map, but there has never been one. It could be that I have screwed something up during LM fonts update, but I'm a bit clueless at the moment. More or less the same files seem to work OK on windows, the only difference are the binaries. > kpsewhich lm-math.map returns /context2/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map and there it is lmmi12 LMMathItalic12-Regular "enclmmathit ReEncodeFont" <lm-mathit.enc <lmmi12.pfb as well as > kpsewhich lmmi12.pfb /context2/tex/texmf/fonts/type1/public/lm/lmmi12.pfb and > kpsewhich lm-mathit.enc /context2/tex/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/lm-mathit.enc > pdftex --version pdfTeX 3.141592-1.50.0-alpha-20071218-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.6) kpathsea version 3.5.6dev Copyright 2007 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX). Kpathsea is copyright 2007 Karl Berry and Olaf Weber. There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and the Lesser GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING and the pdfTeX source. Primary author of pdfTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX). Kpathsea written by Karl Berry, Olaf Weber, and others. Compiled with libpng 1.2.24; using libpng 1.2.24 Compiled with zlib 1.2.3; using zlib 1.2.3 Compiled with xpdf version 3.02pl2 > kpsewhich --version kpathsea version 3.5.6 Copyright 2005 Karl Berry & Olaf Weber. There is NO warranty. You may redistribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the files named GPL and LGPL. I have tried both beta and stable ConTeXt, but no difference. On windows the metafun format fails to generate at some conditions, but that's a completely unrelated problem (I need to figure out what goes wrong there). I could imagine that the problem could be caused by texmf.cnf, but I didn't change anything there: TEXFONTMAPS.dvipdfm = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{dvipdfm,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.dvipdfmx = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{dvipdfm,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.pdftex = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{pdftex,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.pdfetex = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{pdftex,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.luatex = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{pdftex,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.xetex = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{xetex,pdftex,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.dvips = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{dvips,pdftex,}// TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{$progname,$engine,pdftex,dvips,}//;$TEXMF/{$progname,$engine,pdftex,dvips}/{config,}// (Though it makes no sense that xetex reads dvips maps as it cannot interpret them anyway, and some more polishing could be done, but that's something completely unrelated again.) Another thought is that I could have incompatible libraries, but I didn't change that recently (and it broke two days ago). I would be greatful for any hints about where to look for a solution, Mojca

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Unicode greek in Context
by Βασίλης Γκολφινό πουλος 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hello, I am evaluating context for using it to write long greek documents. So far I have not succeeded in typesetting unicode greek in live-context. I have tried scanning the documentation and mailing list archive with no success. I must admit I am not a very technical user. This is what I have tried so far (unseccessfuly): \enableregime[utf-8] \mainlanguage[gr] \starttext Hello world! Καλημέρα κόσμε! \stoptext Is there something wrong with that? Sorry if I am wasting your time -- if there is a good "RTFM" answer I would not mind. Vassilis

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\placeregister[index][compress=yes] BROKEN ??
by Steffen Wolfrum 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi, please have a look at following minimal: \starttext \placeregister[index][compress=no] \blank[5*big] \placeregister[index][compress=yes] \page test text \index{test index} \section{heading} more test text \index{test index} \section{heading} more test text \index{test index} %\page test text% <--- comment / uncomment this line \page \section{heading text \index{test index}} more test text \index{test index} \page test text \index{test index} \section{heading text \index{test index}} more test text \index{test index} \stoptext The "compress=yes" seems to be corrupt. Steffen (I am using vers. 2008.01.03)

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week of wiki 1: call for "installation instructions"
by Mojca Miklavec 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Dear ConTeXt felows, Wiki has been sleeping for a long time. Specifically, some topics change considerably over time, but wiki pages do not, and so newbie users are completely confused. I would like to announce "The First Week of Wiki: Improving the Installation Instructions" http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Category:Installation Take this page for example: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation It should more-or-less disapear (it may be left for historical reasons in quarantine, but other than that, it should not confuse people!!!) So, I have a little request: can we devote one week (or 10 days if neded) for improvement of installation instructions? This means: - improve a generic page (Installation) with links, general notes about dependencies (ruby, perl), general settings (\useMPTEXgraphicstrue, \preloadtypescripts, write18, texexec --make --all, ctxtools --updatecontext, ..), release notes - three (or slightly more) main pages: Windows Installation, Mac Installation, Linux Installation - Linux Installation may have links to Debian Installation or to Installation from source or similar, but we certainly do not need dozens of different pages for the same thing (Debian TeXlive install, Debian installation, TeX-live) - an template for obsolete stuff (what to do with Aleph? - it's not supported any more anyway) Etc. The topic to follow should probably be about fonts or hello world documents. But we should start somewhere. Mojca PS: here is some statistics about the top 5 pages visited on the wiki: /Main_Page 14.96% /Windows_Installation 2.82% /What_is_ConTeXt 1.78% /Special:Recentchanges 1.75% /First_Document 1.44%

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ConTeXt logo with cows
by Mojca Miklavec 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hello Taco (or other cow fans), What's the easiest way to get the ConTeXt logo with the cow font (possibly in mkiv, but not neccessary)? Do I need to use "low-level" (Lua) or is there already some kind of \getglyph{C_o_n_T_e_X_t} already available? Thanks a lot, Mojca

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halfline broken
by Steffen Wolfrum 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Since context version: 2008.01.28 up to now there is an error when running the file attached below: ! Undefined control sequence. \dodosetupwhitespace ...g \witruimteflexibelfalse \ctxparskip 1 \ctxparskip \... l.31 \setupwhitespace[halfline] ? Process aborted (In context version: 2008.01.03 it still works.) Steffen \chardef\baselinegridmode=1 % not the default ! \def\dodosetupwhitespace % can go in core (or cont-new) {\ifgridsnapping \witruimteflexibelfalse \ctxparskip1\ctxparskip \ifdim\ctxparskip>\zeropoint \ifcase\baselinegridmode \ctxparskip\baselineskip % normal ! ! ! ! !! \or \ifdim\scratchdimen=\baselineskip % maybe range \ctxparskip\baselineskip % normal ! ! ! ! !! \else \ctxparskip\numexpr \ctxparskip/\dimexpr.5\lineheight\relax\relax\dimexpr.5\lineheight\relax \fi \else \ctxparskip\baselineskip % normal ! ! ! ! !! \fi \fi \else \ifwitruimteflexibel \else \ctxparskip1\ctxparskip \fi \fi \parskip\ctxparskip} \starttext \setuplayout[grid=yes] \showstruts \showgrid \showgridboxes \setupwhitespace[halfline] \setuphead[section][grid=fit] \section{Heading One} \input tufte \input knuth \stoptext

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